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Is Authenticity in Marketing a Lost Art?
Remember the days when your mom was in search of a good plumber or electrician so she went over to the phone stand (because phones back then were still corded and plugged into the wall so you needed a stand to put them on) opened the drawer and pulled out the big, fat Yellowpages? After searching for what seemed like forever, she would finally find the section she was looking for and then would have to spend the next hour calling each one individually to check prices, location, availability…all the usual stuff. Nowhere in the Yellowpage ad would you see anything listed about the plumber’s blog website, what he likes…
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Why I Don’t Regret Being A Stay At Home Mom
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Homeschool vs Public School
I am a former homeschool mom. I have been around the block a time or two on both sides of the Homeschool vs Public School debate. Making the choice about how your children receive their education is not an easy one these days. We have tons of options…homeschool, public school, virtual school. So sometimes it’s difficult to feel completely confident in your choices. Here’s our story… When it came time to start thinking about our oldest child starting school, I had mixed feelings about sending her to public school. I was concerned about the environment she would be in, from the bus ride to the classroom. I was concerned about…
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To Ring or Not To Ring: The Research Phase
Ok, so I am doing some research on my personal Facebook page for an upcoming blog post and it has been such a hit that I thought I would bring the same question to all of you who may or may not be connected with me through Facebook. The question is: Do you and/or your spouse wear your wedding rings? Why or why not? Plain and simple question but the answers are loaded! This is going to be a really interesting post. I can’t wait to get it written, but first I need your help. If you would like to chime in and post your answer to my question in the…
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Will Your Relationship Survive Valentine’s Day?
There was a time when Valentine’s Day was a day we celebrated the beautiful story of St. Valentine. During the third century in Rome, Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and children, so he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, a priest at the time, believed the decree to be unfair, so he married young couples in secret. Needless to say, the Emperor was ticked off when he found out, so he had his cronies put Valentine to death. A priest martyred for love makes an intriguing story, wouldn’t you agree? So here we are, like a bazillion years later, and somehow…
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Keeping Christ in Christmas
In our house, we do Christmas a little differently. My husband and I were both raised in homes where we went to midnight Mass as a family and then were up just a few short hours later opening presents. We decided we wanted to do things differently with our family, so we set a few new traditions in place to keep the focus on Christ and not on the secular, materialistic side of the holiday. We don’t set up our Christmas tree until Christmas Eve. Yep, you read that right! We do our decorating on Christmas Eve in preparation for the birth of Jesus. It is an active preparation, anticipation…
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Love Grows Best In Little Houses
Well, the latest of our many military moves is nearly over and I have to say, this one was a doozy. Plans changed about 52 times before we finally were able to make a definite plan of action and go with it. As the saying goes “When Plan A doesn’t work there are 25 other letters of the alphabet.” I think we may have been embarking on X,Y AND Z! Such is life as a military family, and we are happy with our choices and ready to move on with life as “usual”. Probably the biggest change we’ve made was downsizing. We started off in a house that was…
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Why I Don’t Regret Being A Stay At Home Mom
As a writer, I read a lot of various pieces written by people from all over the world. I recently read a piece entitled “9 Reasons Why I Regret Being a Stay-at-Home Mom” by Lisa Endlich Heffernan. While I can certainly appreciate the value in our freedom of speech as Americans, I am also a mom…of seven children. I am a military spouse as well, which means when my husband is gone for work the odds are 7:1 in our house. After our move this summer, we will have relocated our family 11 times. I home schooled our children for 8 years and then enrolled them in public school.…
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Changes In Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes
Zooey Momma! When I rang in 2013 I never expected the new year to be…well…so eventful I guess. My life has been turned completely upside down and pear shaped in these few short weeks of the new year. I am excited and apprehensive all at the same time. Shall I share the excitement with you? Yes…here we go! My husband is in the military. Anyone who reads the news knows that a career in the military does not ensure job security in this day and age. That being said, my husband and I sat down and discussed the pros and cons of him considering a career change. He’s been a…
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Head vs Heart
Oh how I long for the days when the toughest decision I had to make was whether to peg my jeans or tuck them into my 2 pair of complimentary color shrug socks. Yes, I’m a child of the ’80s. Those were some of the best days ever. Banana clips looked cool, neon was in, and newsflash teens…we invented OMG. So much has changed since then though. I don’t ever remember having to choose between buying bread OR milk at the store at the end of a pay period. I never had to check the couch cushions for gas money or stay up until all hours of the morning folding…
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Move #9…Seriously?
We’ve all heard that classic Willie Nelson song “On The Road Again” right? Well this is going to sound ridiculous to most people but we are about to endure our 9th move in 18 years. Not bad when you consider we’re a military family but completely obnoxious when you’re the one who has to do all of the moving. We’ve moved from East to West, North to South, South to further South…just about everywhere. This move is probably the most ridiculous one yet…we’re moving right next door. Yep, you read that correctly…we are moving right next door to where we are currently residing. We are renting and our lease…
